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Monday, June 27, 2016

Fashion History: The Queen of Mod, Mary Quant

Shiny boots and bubble skirts... yes yes YES!

The next time you put on a mini skirt, give a little thank you to its inventor Mary Quant. (She named it after her favorite car, the Mini.) One of the most influential English designers of the 1960s, Mary gave midcentury women many of the elements of Mod style. And that style still works today.

She once said, "It was the girls on King's Road who invented the mini. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted. I wore them very short and the customers would say, 'Shorter, shorter!'"

Mary wanted women to be emboldened by their clothes. These were outfits for women who wanted to do more than just be looked at. These were clothes to change the world and fight the system, while still having a whole lot of fun.

"They are curiously feminine," Mary said of the women who wore her clothes, "but their femininity lies in their attitude rather than in their appearance."

Be a style contrairista!

2. Style doesn't need to have so many rules. (Come on, who likes wearing a uniform?!)

Chic Contraire was my fun blog experiment about being fabulously, thoughtfully, stylishly contrary at every age -- and all without draining your bank account, damaging your credit rating or (literally) buying into fast-fashion consumerism. While I no longer update, please feel free to explore the archives. (Remember, great style never goes out of fashion.)

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